SALPINCTES. 109 



Troglodytes leucogastra described by Mr. Gould on the same page, 

 it is certainly the same, as the C. brunneicapillus is the characteristic 

 species of that region of Mexico. 



Campylorliynchus nigriceps, Sclatee, P, Z. S. 1860, 461. — Is. 

 Catal. 18, no. 112 (near Vera Cruz, Mex.). 



This species has a black head and post-ocular stripe like capis- 

 tratus and rufinucha, but differs in the black nape like jocosus. The 

 back is reddish, barred transversely with black. The body is un- 

 spotted white beneath, reddish posteriorly ; the tail feathers black, 

 barred on the outer webs, and more obsoletely on the inner web of 

 the lateral, with fulvous, but without the white tips seen in the allies. 



Campylorliyiicliiis gularis, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, 462 (Mexico). 



This is a very short-billed species, closely allied to G. humilis in 

 this respect, as well as in the reddish-brown head. The post-ocular 

 stripe, however, is said to be black, as well as a rictal one. The 

 tail is broadly tipped with white. The two lateral tail feathers have 

 large white spots on both webs (not on the outermost only). The 

 under part, except the throat, with round black spots ; in this also 

 differing from humilis. 



SALPINCTES, Cab. 



Salpinctes, Cab. Wiegmann's Archiv, 1847, i, 323. (Type Troglodytes 

 obsoletus, Sat.) 



This genus is sufficiently characterized in the " Birds N". Am.," as 

 well as in the general synopsis of th« family in the preceding pages, 

 for my present purposes. It is, however, especially peculiar among 

 all its cognate genera by having the usual two continuous plates along 

 the posterior half of the inner and outer faces of the tarsus divided 

 transversely into seven or more smaller plates, with a naked interval 

 between them and the anterior scutellse. At the upper end of the 

 outer plate these divisions or lines of junction are obsolete, becoming 

 more distinct below, and near the inferior extremity the plates are 

 reduced to oval scales. The plate along the inner face is also divided 

 into two or three plates, sometimes more, usually less distinct than on 

 the outer. The posterior edge of the tarsus, instead of being sharp, 

 is usually, though not always, blunted, by the bending round of the 

 outer plate. The lateral toes are quite disproportionate in size, the 

 inner with its claw scarcely reaching beyond the end of the second 



